My dad's entire (big) family is over 160IQ, which is statistically unheard of. All of them can grasp anything they put their mind to. They only put their mind to things that interest them. As far as I can tell, only one or two of them are smart enough to see the forest through the trees and be immune to marketing and propaganda, because it interests them to put their minds to those sorts of things.
They're all boomers, and like most boomers they have largely been failures as far as their families go; although, I'd say that's mostly because of women being allowed to be batshit insane. Their intelligence hasn't really helped them avoid batshit crazy women.
As far as the various example tasks you mentioned, they're all skills that can be trained and require both interest and discipline. Some require a baseline intelligence, but it's not substantial. Sherlock Holmesing conclusions from mere minutia is a bit fantastic, though.
Personally, I slept through AP Calculus and aced it, but that's because I liked the math and spacial reasoning, and I sometimes did my homework (usually during lunch). I had previously flunked out of a 6th grade advanced math course called MEGSS because I was bored and uninterested (it was basically pre-algebra for 6th graders, and I would have ended up taking AP Calc a year earlier).
My dad's entire (big) family is over 160IQ, which is statistically unheard of. All of them can grasp anything they put their mind to. They only put their mind to things that interest them. As far as I can tell, only one or two of them are smart enough to see the forest through the trees and be immune to marketing and propaganda, because it interests them to put their minds to those sorts of things.
They're all boomers, and like most boomers they have largely been failures as far as their families go; although, I'd say that's mostly because of women being allowed to be batshit insane. Their intelligence hasn't really helped them avoid batshit crazy women.
As far as the various example tasks you mentioned, they're all skills that can be trained and require both interest and discipline. Some require a baseline intelligence, but it's not substantial. Sherlock Holmesing conclusions from mere minutia is a bit fantastic, though.
Personally, I slept through AP Calculus and aced it, but that's because I liked the math and spacial reasoning, and I sometimes did my homework (usually during lunch). I had previously flunked out of a 6th grade advanced math course called MEGSS because I was bored and uninterested (it was basically pre-algebra for 6th graders, and I would have ended up taking AP Calc a year earlier).